Imagine hearing a voice so lifelike, so nuanced, that you’d swear it belonged to a real person—only to discover it was generated by artificial intelligence. It’s a fascinating and slightly surreal ...

Trying the new voice assistant from AI startup Sesame is the first time I momentarily forgot I was talking to a bot. Compared to ChatGPT's voice mode, Sesame's "conversational voice" feels natural, ...

In context: Some of the implications of today's AI models are startling enough without adding a hyperrealistic human voice to them. We have seen several impressive examples over the last 10 years, but ...

In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to ...